Bottoms Up: An Application of the Slapstick to Satire

Chapter 85: BRIEUX

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A lively assortment of satirical pieces that deploy slapstick, parody and critical wit against theatrical clichés and social pretensions. The book combines short comic dramas, lampooning sketches, mock practical guides and playful glossaries with essays and vignette-style scenes, shifting between stagewise set-pieces and faux-instructional formats. Through exaggerated situations, ironic commentary and burlesque forms it skewers popular tastes and received manners while showcasing a brisk, conversational comic voice that favors deflation and farce over earnest moralizing.

THREE MODERN DRAMATISTS

BRIEUX

Act I ! ! ! ! !	}	! ! ! ! !
Act II ! ! ! ! !	}
Act III ! ! ! ! !	}

BELASCO

Act I

The Hampton Shops
The Edison Electrical Supplies Co.

Act II

The Tiffany Studios
Thorley
The Edison Electrical Supplies Co.

Act III

Vantine’s
The Antique Objets d’Art Exchange
The Edison Electrical Supplies Co.

SHAW [1]

Act I
Platitudes
Act II
Platitudes
Act III
Platitudes

[1] Transcriber's Note: All three “Platitudes” printed upside down in original.